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0 pointszuron77y ago0 comments

No they aren't. DuckDuckGo does add some of their own stuff in there. Ending up with different results. You can verify.

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Of course they have other stuff, but their web search results come directly from Yahoo/Bing and the Russian search engine Yandex. This is widely known [1]. On their FAQ though [2], they mention Yahoo and Bing, but "forget" to mention Yandex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo [2] https://duck.co/help/results/sources

Kiro7y ago

Can someone explain why all the comments mentioning this get downvoted? utopcell even links to DuckDuckGo directly where they openly confirm it.

mda7y ago

Yes they do, mostly bing + yahoo and yandex. Do they give which percentage of backends they use for any non trivial search?

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